Monster Mash: Breaking news and headlines

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--Music honors: Venezuelan composer Jose Antonio Abreu, left, who founded El Sistema youth music program, and Peter Gabriel share Polar Music Prize, Sweden’s biggest music award.

--Big loan: Carnegie Hall to sell $100 million in bonds to help finance renovations.

--Visual protest: Czech artist’s controversial work ‘Entropa’ on European Union building in Brussels is taken down.

--Need for a memorial? Berliners regret erasing memories of the Berlin Wall as 20th anniversary approaches.

--Can we audition for Thing? Nathan Lane and Bebe Neuwirth to star in ‘The Addams Family’ musical, opening on Broadway in 2010.

--No injuries: Fire hits Zaha Hadid-designed opera house under construction in China.

--Angering architects: Britain’s Prince Charles tells architects to look to the past to produce better buildings.

--Big fan: Details of Brooke Astor‘s pre-Alzheimer’s ‘crush’ on Matthew Broderick come out during trial of her son.

--Clock watching: When it comes to performances, how long is too long?

--Lisa Fung